EL HABLA ESPAÑOLA ACTUAL: CAMBIOS FONÉTICOS
CURRENT SPANISH LANGUAGE: PHONETIC CHANGES

Summary/Abstract: In the current context of the language evolution, Spanish has witnessed and continues to witness simplification processes that are noticeable primarily at the oral level. The users tend to simplify the speech according to the communication context, but mainly depending on the sociocultural variables, namely age, gender, level of education and the dialectal factor, which plays an important role on the background of the migration from the rural to the urban area and vice versa. Although there are various linguistic varieties, in Spain there is a tendency towards generalization regarding the processes of phonetic change. Therefore, in this context it would be necessary to discuss about the importance of the standard norm and the need of a possible normativization at the phonetic and orthographic level for the present and future changes. The main subject of this paper is the presentation of examples of phonetic changes in the speech of Spanish mother tongue users.

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